For the whole story on how to use the OODA Loop as a unique way to use Social Media to improve Customer Service, download the white paper here. Or read on… Everyone knows that a customer most likely will not buy from you if they are angry with you. So if customers are complaining about your product or service within social media and no one is available to address those complaints quickly, others will read the complaints. These complaints might be in the form of an online review, often on a third party site where you can’t take the content down. (Note: its generally not a good idea to take negative content down, even if its on your site and you could. Doing so makes the company look like they are trying to hide something and thus not being transparent or honest. If that happens, a firestorm of comments can result and be worse than the initial set of comments.

Just know that if you are a company in business, there is probably someone who has said something negative about you online. That’s going to happen. What matters is what you do with the comments. Best practices are to go and address customer’s issues. Say you are sorry they had an issue and ask them how you can help.

Some customer may have moved on and there is nothing you can do. Other’s will respond and at that point, take the interaction offline- to a phone call. Resolve the issue and you’ll see that customers are so completely caught off guard by a company being nice and doing the “right” thing, they will often go back and repost a comment about how they were wrong about the company and how great they really are. Now imagine your online posts. If you haven’t addressed them, sales will suffer. Customers will see the comments and not want to deal with you and look for products/solutions elsewhere—and even buy from another company. And what’s worse is your brand name could be damaged. In today’s real-time social media response environment, excellent Customer Service and rapid response to complaints is a huge differentiator over the competition.

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Dr. Natalie is a business strategist and a futurist. She has spent her careers looking about how businesses interact with their customers and their employees and she provides companies with the best way to create environments that foster loyatly, motivation and innovation.